Train Conductor

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June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

by Duff Allen

 

Before he threw himself he’d said passing through the cabin, “Every door’s an exit.”

 

Duff Allen is a writer living in upstate New York. His stories appear in Columbia Journal, The Broken City, Pure Slush, and many others. He went to Middlebury College, and has an MFA from Bard College where he teaches writing in The Clemente Course in the Humanities.

One thought on “Train Conductor

  1. Maurice Arina's avatar Maurice Arina says:

    Ah did Anna Karenina read this brilliance piece and hear the conductor’s words. What if she had been perusing Sartre’s “No Exit” instead?

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